Posts tagged with ‘Open Rights Group’

The EU Commission is proposing an extension to copyright on sound recordings, the same idea having been rejected by the UK government last year. At present, copyright on a recording lasts for 50 years, after which it enters the public domain. The proposal is for the copyright to be extended to 95 years. Unsurprisingly, the […]

Copyright law in the UK allows few exceptions for fair use. People who rip their CDs to make MP3 files for their portable players are actually breaking the law, although record companies have indicated in the past that they won’t pursue people for doing so. Today, a consultation was announced on changes to copyright law […]

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Everyone who wants us to #Remain in the EU should permanently stop using Facebook after seeing these disgusting targeted ads bbc.in/2AeH6kj It used to be tabloids that wielded huge power; now it's Facebook. Leave Facebook, not the EU, and free the web while you're at it~2 weeks agoReplyRetweetFavourite

Found @Namesco have broken one of my PHP scripts since the transfer from @virtualnames as allow_url_fopen is not enabled. Apparently if I pay 3 times as much for CPanel they will enable it. I never asked for this; forced to become a Namesco customer.~3 months agoReplyRetweetFavourite